CBSE Board Exams 2020: Key details about CBSE 10th, 12th marking scheme, sample papers

While preparing for CBSE Class 10 and CBSE Class 12 board exams, students can take the help of these subject-wise marking schemes to check the answers to all questions asked in the sample papers.

CBSE Board Exams 2021: With the continuous increase in speculations over the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) decision to hold Class 10, 12 Board exams in 2021, the Board has started releasing CBSE 10th sample papers 2021 and CBSE 12th sample papers 2021 along with the marking schemes for the upcoming CBSE Class 10 and 12 Board Exam 2021. The CBSE released the new question paper design and the evaluation scheme for the Class 10 board exam and Class 12 board exams in order to help the students prepare well for the important exam. While preparing for CBSE Class 10 and CBSE Class 12 board exams, students can take the help of these subject-wise marking schemes to check the answers to all questions asked in the sample papers.The marking scheme released by CBSE also helps the student in upgrading their writing skills. 

CBSE marking scheme: Things to remember 

• It mentions suggestive answers
• Suggests correct ways of including the key concepts and keywords
• It reveals the step-wise marking scheme which will be used by evaluators to check the answer sheets of candidates
• Helps in writing concise and informative answers

Students appearing for CBSE 10th and CBSE 12th board exams are advised to analyse the CBSE marking scheme of each sample paper in order to understand how to write their answers in best way to obtain maximum marks. According to the official reports, there will be more application-based questions in the CBSE 12th Board Exams 2021. While talking to the media, Joseph Emmanuel, director, academics at CBSE, stated, “There will be more case-study based questions wherein a paragraph will be given to students and they will have to answer questions after reading the paragraph. This will assess students on their reading, understanding, interpretation, and answer writing abilities and move away from the root learning.” Earlier, these questions used to carry one mark but it is likely that from 2021 these questions would translate into short or long questions.